Michael Cooper

BROADWAY: It Shoulda Been You, starring Tyne Daly and directed by David Hyde Pierce (Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Additional Lyrics, with book by Brian Hargrove, music by Barbara Anselmi). OFF-BROADWAY: City Of (Original song, with Anton Dudley), Playwrights Realm. REGIONAL: Music & Lyrics for Love, Always (book by Bill Connington), world premiere at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach, Summer 2016. MAC Award nominee, 2005 Jonathan Larson Award Winner. Musicals include: Second To Nun (Music, with book and lyrics by Anton Dudley); Luna Park (Lyrics and Additional Material, with Music and Additional Material by Hyeyoung Kim and Book by Daniel F. Levin), selected for the From Page To Stage Festival Of New Musicals in London; Sunfish (Co-Book/Lyrics, music by Hyeyoung Kim) Top Jury Honor DIMF, South Korea (2013). News To Me, Rites of Passage, Museum Pieces, and The Dome (Prospect Theater Co); Lizardman! (Libretto for The Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire, music by David Mallamud). Selected for NAMT, The ASCAP/Disney Workshop, 4x15 at The Musical Theater Factory, NYTB (Timelines), and the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. BA: Williams College; MFA: NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Member of ASCAP and the Dramatist Guild.

Awards:
2011 BWW Award Best Musical (Medium Sized Theatre) for SUNFISH (Stoneham, MA)